Molecular and Biochemical Analysis of the CTR1 Kinase from Arabidopsis thaliana

9318522基伯，这是美国国家科学基金会植物生物学博士后研究员的初步资助。基伯博士在宾夕法尼亚大学约瑟夫·埃克尔博士的实验室完成了他作为NSF博士后研究员的任期，现在是芝加哥伊利诺伊大学生物科学系的助理教授。有了这个初学者奖，基伯博士计划启动他的独立研究项目，长期目标是了解植物激素乙烯的作用模式。具体地说，基伯博士将进一步描述拟南芥的一个突变体CTR-1。该突变体在幼苗和成年植物中都缺乏对乙烯的感知。有一些证据表明，CTR1基因产物可能编码一种激酶。希望这些研究结果将为植物生物学中这一重要问题的继续研究奠定基础。***

9318522 Kieber This a starter grant for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Plant Biology. Dr. Kieber has completed his tenure as the NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Ecker at University of Pennsylvania and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Unversity of Illinois at Chicago. With this starter award, Dr. Kieber plans to initiate his independent research program with a long-term goal of understanding the mode of action of the plant hormone, ethylene. Specifically, Dr. Kieber will further characterize a mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, ctr 1. This mutant is deficient in ethylene perception in both seedlings and adult plants. There is some evidence to indicate that the ctr1 gene product may encode for a kinase. It is hoped that the results from these studies will build the foundation for continued studies of the important problem in plant biology. ***